The well equipped hospital was already running in 1996. He bragged about his sumptuous homes in India and Japan and about his shopping sprees for designer clothes, she says. When I asked Pandit Arya about the allegations of sexual abuse, he admits that he was very disturbed when he first heard them. The Muslims draw out the liquid and call it pani. - Swami Rama, "Living With the Himalayan Masters". Omissions? He spoke Bengali and knew neither English nor Sanskrit. They announced the date of their death and I was one of the witnesses. Like incest victims, women who say they have been sexually abused by their gurus are sworn to silence by their abusers. He discusses the philosophy, practice and benefits of yoga and meditation. 2019Encyclopedia.com | All rights reserved. Truth alone is the real teacher and master" - and asking for an explanation of the women's stories and challenging a possible Institute "cover-up" on professional ethical grounds. Shortly after they started studying with Pandit Usharbudh Arya at the Meditation Center in Minneapolis, he introduced them to his guru, Swami Rama. A Practical Guide to Holistic Health. Ramakrishna, originally called Gadadhar Chatterji or Gadadhar Chattopadhyaya, (born February 18, 1836, Hooghly [now Hugli], Bengal state, Indiadied August 16, 1886, Calcutta [now Kolkata]), Hindu religious leader, founder of the school of religious thought that became the Ramakrishna Order. Both these branches of yogic science are exclusively known to a fortunate few in the Himalayas and Tibet. Later in life he became famous for his pithy parables about the ultimate unity of the different religious traditions in this formless Vedantic brahman. Carolyn rationalized: Swamiji was her guru, so even though the prospect of having sex with him seemed morally wrong and physically revolting, he must be doing it for her own good. Carolyn went away to college at the end of that year, as her parents expected. Carolyn says she knew that Swami Rama often promised his disciples he would take them to India or appoint them to important positions within the Institute-promises that rarely materialized. When someone we love dies, it is sad. Megan went through a brief but painful and confusing time during which she doubted her own feelings and perceptions. she remembers him demanding. Finally I found an opportunity to broach the topic of the lawsuit with Carolyn. Everyone knows about Lord Rama's wife i.e. [9] The result was a sharp increase of interest in his teachings. Giving the empire to Luv-Kush Rama, apparently repenting for his sins, decided to give all his empire to Luv and Kush to rule. During a series of biofeedback experiments in 1970 and 1971, Drs. He sent copies of his letter to many of his former colleagues and other professionals on the Institute's stafT. He cannot disbelieve his guru. In his new book, At the Eleventh Hour, Pandit Tigunait chronicles the 20-year period that he spent with his . She did not allow even her eldest son, Dr. A.N.Tandon, to remain in the room. Answer (1 of 12): Swami Vivekananda was a perfect Yogi, He had all the powers to cure Himself as well as others. Pandit Arya has many profound and beautiful things to say about his relationship to his guru when I interview him at the Divya Jyoti yoga center in Napa, California, in May 1989. The couple had been meditating together for several years. There's no need for finding out, if I know it is completely wrong.". Up to that point I had felt like he was a guru, that he cared about me at least, but no, he was just using me.". Swami Rama consistently sought to establish a clear scientific basis for the practice of yoga and meditation. Someone informed me of this and I could not believe it. The yogi suddenly went into deep meditation. "Before [these women] started saying these things, I also had a very good feeling that these people were wonderful people and they would never lie and they were trustworthy people. It is unknown whether he has other children. Several former students of Swami Rama granted interviews to Patricia Ann Darling, Ph. Reprinted from Sacred Journey, an HIHT publication. He did this by increasing his heart rate to 300 beats per minute so that the ventricles stopped pumping and the atria just fluttered. Carolyn stayed at the Institute for three more years, working at a variety of jobs. Each time the Institute's top professionals have been confronted with complaints that Swami Rama is abusing his position, institutional mechanisms of denial have come to the guru's aid. https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/rama-swami-1925-1996, "Rama, Swami (1925-1996) As the couple started making arrangements to move to England, they received another blow. I ask Dr. Ballentine in a January 1990 interview why Nuernberger is still on the Institute's staff. Swami Vivekananda Death Anniversary: 4th July is the 116th death anniversary of Swami Vivekananda. Swami Rama is held by his disciples to be a kind of god: He makes up the rules of the game, he can change them at will, and he cannot be judged by them. The time of her parting seemed imminent. Megan recalls that in one of her first encounters with Swami Rama, she watched as he humiliated a quiet, withdrawn woman resident. Carolyn says the "goofy" letters never got answered. At a later date, he pursued a formal education at Oxford University, continuing his studies of Western psychology and philosophy in Germany and Holland for three years before coming to the United States in 1969. Soon after his first vision, Ramakrishna commenced on a series of sadhanas (austere practices) in the various mystical traditions, including Bengali Vaishnavism, Shakta Tantrism, Advaita Vedanta, and even Islamic Sufism and Roman Catholicism. He published books and audiotapes for the Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy, first located in a Chicago suburb, which he founded in 1971. Please read the series At the Feet of a Himalayan Master. Tigunait, Pandir Rajmani. [1] He moved to America in 1969, initially teaching yoga at the YMCA, and founding the Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy in Illinois in 1971; its headquarters moved to its current location in Honesdale, Pennsylvania in 1977. At the meeting, Brian says, Dr. Ballentine presented letters from another woman, Karen,* who also claimed to have been sexually exploited by Swami Rama. Swami Rama Himalayan University by Swami Veda Bharati, Glory to All Saints (interview) -- Swami Veda Bharati, Parents, Children, and Spirituality by Swami Rama, 50 Kids in a Memorable 4-day Program by David Rodrigo, Yes! "Until you get your priorities straight and your head clear, I would request that you refrain from attempting to represent the Institute or its teachings in any way.". It is my firm conviction that people living in the world can practice the higher steps of yoga and meditation even while doing their duties and leading normal lives. In a few months time she would handle his bank account, income taxes, everything. Died: August 16, 1886 She was afraid to stay in her room, which had no lock on the door, or to use the hall telephone, because all calls had to be routed through the main switchboard. Who? Brian also received a threat, he says: a note telling him he "might get hurt," which was accidentally shoved under the door of a lawyer who rented the office next door to his in a Honesdale office building. Sexual contract between gurus and their American disciples is not a new or rare phenomenon. He is also supposed to have graduated from a homeopathic medical school in India, and studied at Hamburg University, the University of Utrecht, and Oxford University. Yoga and Psychotherapy. However, after Swami Rama talked with them, they either told Brian and Terry that the guru should be allowed a "mistake" or they shunned the couple altogether. Updates? She asked him to give her a homeopathic remedy for the itching, she says, but he refused and turned away, dismissing her. Swami Rama is survived by his Indian son and daughter, Mohit Dhasmana and Devyani Mungali, and his American son, Robert Walter. So far 2 volumes of memoirs by different disciples have been published by Swami Rama Centre at the Himalayan Institute Hospital Trust in Dehradun. The last few months of his life were filled with accusations of sexual assault and harassment from several women against himself and the Himalayan Institute. There's no need for finding out, if I know it is completely wrong.". Since our interview, Dr. Ballentine has been sent at least two letters by women who say they were sexually abused by Swami Rama: one from Carolyn and one from Susan. Born: February 18, 1833 However, the date of retrieval is often important. Meanwhile, Swami Rama had appointed her as registrar of the graduate program, replacing a long-time woman disciple who was being kicked out of the Institute for no apparent reason. He was Kala deva himself disguised in a sadhu's form. The movement is considered one of the revitalisation movements of India. Both came from prominent Midwestern families; each had an alcoholic parent, and they now believe they were seeking not only spiritual growth, but also a strong parental figure. Dr. Ballentine sent copies of his letter to the same Institute members who had received Hughes's letter. The sadhu now revealed himself in his original form. They rarely had to do the menial chores performed by other residents; Brian was encouraged to study the sacred texts and write a book, while Terry got training as a Montessori teacher and started a school for the Institute's children. The yogis, he says, have demonstrated these abilities in the past and continue to do so. What Ballentine does not mention is that a second jury judged Nuernberger guilty of unprofessional conduct in his treatment of Nancy E. Williams, another former client, on February 17, 1981. It is sad for him, and for those who cared and were so deeply hurt by him, that his behavior has been allowed to continue with such devastating results to people just looking for help." Because each style has its own formatting nuances that evolve over time and not all information is available for every reference entry or article, Encyclopedia.com cannot guarantee each citation it generates. Like Pandit Rajmani, Dr. Ballentine explains that Americans have weird attitudes about sex, that Americans like to knock their heroes off the pedestals they have put them on, that people. [2][3] Abuses alleged to have taken place against former students of Swami Rama in Chicago, in Minneapolis, in New York, and in India in the 1970s were documented by Patricia Ann Darling in a chapter of her 1987 University of Minnesota PhD thesis. Carolyn had sought a consultation with Pandit Rajmani, who told her that Megan was either lying because she was "on an ego trip," or fantasizing a sexual encounter that had never taken place. Put that letter in the 'goofy file.'" He says he spends most evenings with the guru until midnight or 2 a.m., and that he knows better than anyone who is with Swami Rama late at night and who isn't. At this time one of us three was destined to leave: he (grandmaster), I or yourself (referring to me). Unfortunately, his health kept deteriorating and he died in 1920 at the age of 32. Meanwhile, Carolyn says, Swami Rama began singling her out for special attention. Despite the questions about his background, there is no denying that Swami Rama made a terrific impact on western thinking when he served as a research subject at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas. Tibetan Buddhism Ramakrishna, now alone, prayed for a vision of Kali-Ma (Kali the Mother), whom he worshipped as the supreme manifestation of God. Hadn't he taken vows of celibacy? Or, in the words of Rudolph Ballentine, M.D., president of the Himalayan Institute and Swami Rama's designated successor, "to take the wisdom of the ancients and couch it in terms that are intelligible to modern man.". Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. At a young age, Swami Rama is supposed to have been appointed Shankaracharya of Karvirpitham, an exalted spiritual post. Following on the wave of favorable publicity, Swami Rama founded the Himalayan Institute in Illinois in 1971. That all religions could be seen as different paths to the same divine source or, even better, that this divine source revealed itself in traditional Hindu categories was welcome and truly liberating news for many Hindus. Carolyn rationalized: Swamiji was her guru, so even though the prospect of having sex with him seemed morally wrong and physically revolting, he must be doing it for her own good. Rama is also known as Ram, Raman, Ramar, [] and Ramachandra ( / rmtndr /; [22] IAST: Rmacandra, Sanskrit: ). Instead, he told the other board members that he believed Rose, and that they should investigate the incident for themselves. (His interest in Roman Catholicism ended with a vision of the great yogi Jesus embracing him and then disappearing into his body.) There they became priests in a temple dedicated to the goddess Kali. But Swami Rama's disciples do not hold him to these standards. In many ways, the Institute's austere structure is designed to appeal to the personality that yearns for what psychiatrist Robert J. Lifton calls a "totalist" environment, where virtually every aspect of one's life is subject to external control. "If the guru's instruction leads to a deeper peace, freedom from conflict, a deepening of meditation, harmony in relationships - all of these. In order to believe in his perfection, they must rationalize behavior that others would judge to be tyrannical, cruel, or self-indulgent. Carolyn says he called her out to Glenview for a special appointment, at which he invited her to come live and work at his new ashram in Honesdale-and told her he would waive the usual residential program fees. With great concern I asked him how he was. He called a few of his disciples to spend some time with him in silence, told us my Master is calling me and I must go. The chapter on the Meditation Center in Patricia Darling's dissertation details the growth of the center and the subsequent disillusionment of many of Pandit Arya's students with his new guru. Then, copy and paste the text into your bibliography or works cited list. Broad described him as "the star of autonomic control". In that letter, Hughes had told Swami Rama why marriage and parenthood were probably not for him. It was located on the way to Dhulikhel on the mountain of Janagal. It was also about this time that Calcutta newspaper and journal articles first referred to him as the Hindu saint or as the Paramahamsa (a religious title of respect and honour). One evening she went out to dinner with Martha*, an old friend from East West Books Chicago. 1 Death mystery of Swami Vivekananda There is no mystery surrounding the fact that Swami Vivekananda died in the year 1902. The Mission conducts extensive work in health care, disaster relief, rural management, tribal welfare, elementary and higher education. A rash of articles featuring Swami Rama appeared in national magazines, including Time, People, and Playboy. Carolyn has received no reply from the Institute. In his short lifetime, he spread Indian culture and spirituality all over the world. A few weeks later she moved to Honesdale. He says he was only directly confronted once-the rest has been hearsay. What a foolish woman! "I thought: 'Maybe it's the only way he can break through some stubborn barrier in my ego. Yet the women never seemed to complain about such treatment, Megan says. He was among the first notable teachers of Hinduism to lecture in the United States, travelling there in 1902, preceded by Swami Vivekananda in 1893 and followed by Paramahansa Yogananda in 1920. Sadhana Mandir Trust Now she says that those who have allowed the abuses to continue unchecked are responsible for destroying the Institute's integrity. Shri Swami Rama clearly understood that Health, Education and Livelihood skills form a triangular primacy and that holistic development . Brian and Terry say her family members at the Institute harassed her by mail and by telephone, with accusations that she had "a habit of inducing this sort of behavior from men.". Association of Himalayan Yoga Meditation Societies International. She took a meditation class at the alternative high school program she attended, and one evening her teachers invited her to a lecture by their guru, Swami Rama, who was visiting the Chicago area. On Vasanta Panchami (the celebration of the first day of spring) morning at 4:30 suddenly he said, Now the time has come. Then he sat in the meditative posture, siddhasana, closed his eyes, and became silent. The teachings contained in the sacred texts cannot play any meaningful part in judging who is a good guru and who is not: "How could they? Then he left the USA to meet his Master. The last few months of his life were filled with accusations of sexual assault and harassment from several women against himself and the Himalayan Institute. Megan* started the Institute's graduate program in Eastern Studies in the fall of 1982. But after they started saying all these things, I never trusted them anymore. He replied: I am very well, sonny. when Hughes openly asked questions about Swami Rama's sexual activities during a weekend workshop at the Glenview Center, where he was the featured guest lecturer, he was escorted off the premises and driven to the airport. Similarly, gurus in the Buddhist and Hindu traditions are supposed to be examples of self-mastery and right living. Megan says she squelched an urge to speak out, instead deciding, like most of the Institute's residents, to suspend judgment so she could "understand and learn" from this "great master." . Those who build boundaries around themselves because of their ego problems create suffering for themselves." The narrator says again that every person who Ravana sent into battle didn't return. Many people, including the victims themselves, have trouble understanding how damaging such sexual contact can be, because the women are adults and no one is holding a gun to their heads. She became outraged at the residents and the professional staff who enable and legitimized the Swami's behavior. . During my weekend visit, Carolyn and I took long walks on the Institute's wooded grounds while talking about her compulsive eating patterns and her disastrous relationships with men suggested as possible husbands by Swami Rama. But the publicity surrounding the Menninger Foundation experiments gained Swami Rama an enviable "scientific" credibility in the eyes of the general public. I was counting years. When Carolyn had to work, I attended classes in Hatha yoga or read. Of all the Institute's swamis and teachers, Pandit Arya is by far the most scholarly. The headquarters of the mission is in Belur Math, a monastery near Kolkata. She was thrilled; it was commonly believed at the Institute that the fastest way to reach enlightenment was to spend as much time as possible in the presence of the guru. She was feeling so disgusted with her body and afraid of the guru's humiliating comments that one night she couldn't face going to his room, she says. His body was buried in Krishna Balaram Mandir in Vrindavan. She says he arranged for her to meet him at the Gramercy Park Hotel and instructed her not to call him Swami in public. Within a sect the guru's authority is often absolute: he rules from the pinnacle of the institutional hierarehy. Then, later on, when the right man came along, she would marry and be very happy. Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology. Yes! As Rutter explains in his book, a sexual relationship between a man in a position of power-doctor, psychologist, mentor, or priest-and a woman who is dependent on him-as patient, student, client, or troubled soul-almost always involves an element of coercion and a betrayal of trust. I might doubt my own perception, I might doubt my own eyes, but I cannot doubt that strength which has given me everything.". Dr. Ballentine says it is "presumptuous" to judge whether or not someone is perfected. The 3rd volume is now in preparation, soon to be published. mother Sita, that she split up the ground and was absorbed into the earth, but when the question was asked when Lord Rama died, Swami Satyendra Dasji says that the description of Lord Rama's going to heaven can be found in Valmiki Ramayana. Indian religious leader and mystic A saint is a person who does what he says." Honesdale, Pa.: Himalayan International Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy, 1978. Long-term residents must get administration approval for any overnight absences; permission may be denied if their destination is judged inappropriate. Finally, on 13th November 1996 he left his body. Yet the Institute's success comes at a high cost for many of those involved. His lifetime of contributing to a reconciliation of scientific and spiritual knowledge brought him the Martin Buber Award for Service to Humanity in 1977. Terry, who is now a practicing psychotherapist, says she believes Swami Rama's behavior is compulsive-he can't help it." In 1969, Pandit Arya met Swami Rama, who gave him "one of the highest meditation initiations," in which he experienced himself "as a being of light." And he abruptly dismissed her. He was ready to embark on his project to build the hospital, but first he chose to establish an ashram in Nepal. In private sessions, ex-disciples say, Swami Rama has arranged marriages and instructed disciples to break off relationships. But the followers of such "enlightened" men are usually reluctant to find fault with them, since to do so could invalidate the students' own years of study and devotion. In such a situation, she says, the whole system becomes sick and no one can see the light: "There's no truth, When confronted with allegations of sexual abuse by Swami Rama, Pandit Rajmani resident spiritual director at the Himalayan Institute, replies "Believing such stories means disbelieving in myself. His disciples believe he knows them better than they know themselves, and that if they want to achieve their spiritual goals they should do exactly as he says. He says that Nuernberger's one mistake has "ruined his life, in essence, which is really too bad.". At about the same time, Carolyn was accepted into the residential program at East West Books Chicago, the Institute's downtown branch. In three months, Carolyn says, she gained 20 pounds. This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ramakrishna, IndiaNetzone - Biography of Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center of New York - Biography of Sri Ramakrishna, World Religious and Spirituality Project - Ramakrishna, Cultural India - Reformers - Biography of Ramakrishna Paramhansa. She renewed her acquaintance with her former meditation teachers and started taking classes in Glenview, Illinois, at the Institute's original headquarters. Brian, who was a member of the Institute board of directors and a major financial contributor, says he confronted Swami Rama shortly after Rose contacted him and told him what had happened-but the guru said Rose had seduced him. But his disciples did not realize that and kept massaging his back till the wee hours. But something, which is truth, cannot be falsified by having one hundred witnesses. 3 The accumulated testimony of their personal experiences through the years exhibits a pattern typical of "sex in the forbidden zone," coupled with institutional mechanisms of defense and denial. And there is a statement, 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.'" I asked him why these specialists cannot agree on a diagnosis. Finally, she obtained his permission. But not all of us know the real reason (s) behind his demise. The victim's confusion and loss of trust are compounded when her community refuses to acknowledge her suffering. At the same time as he dismissed her, Swami Rama also gave her a Sanskrit name. One of them, along with the other women from the tour group, attended the wedding of Swami Rama's son, although the guru is officially supposed to have been celibate since taking his Swami's vows. The ant came back to life and started crawling. And that did not undermine Mahatma Gandhi's work! On the contrary, they sought opportunities to serve the guru's every whim, or even to be abused by him: Megan remembers one woman saying she wished the guru would kick her. After she had lived in Honesdale for a year, Swami Rama started promising to make her his appointments secretary. The Swami also continued to teach and write from his centers in India. [13], Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy, "15 Yoga Gurus That Are Empowering The World Through Social Media", "The Case Against Swami Rama of The Himalayas", "$1.9 Million Awarded In Swami Sexual Case", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Swami_Rama&oldid=1147688250, This page was last edited on 1 April 2023, at 15:01. [1] He moved to America in 1969, initially teaching yoga at the YMCA, and founding the Himalayan Institute of Yoga Science and Philosophy in Illinois in 1971; its headquarters moved to its current location in Honesdale, Pennsylvania in 1977. Karen, the woman whose claims were ridiculed at the meeting where Swami Rama and the other directors responded to Brian's charges, was one of the first ex-members to confront top Institute administrators. * Several months earlier, he received a letter from Bob Hughes, a member of the Institute's board of directors from 1978 to 1980. The ant came back to life and started crawling. "We were Brahmins in the Institute's caste system," Terry recalls. Carolyn has been in therapy for the past five years, trying to rebuild her self-confidence and heal the damage done by what she now calls her "sexual abuse" by Swami Rama. Minneapolis was the site of another Institute-related scandal in 1981. This period of separation is painful to the ignorant. New York: Random House, 1976. Residents staff the Institute's administration, bookstores, and other small businesses, including Himalayan Publishers and Distributors and an elementary school. He looked hale and hearty, standing as usual tall and erect. My father certainly had sex, and that's why I was born, so will I lose faith in my father? This was to us a lesson in what total selflessness of a yogi means. Yet she is vulnerable to feeling re-victimized every time her experience is denied or distorted. Trained to meditate and educated in the scriptures from early childhood, he was able to translate and interpret any of the 20,000 verses from the Vedas by the age of 13, according to a biographical pamphlet put out by the Meditation Center. They know, usually without being told, that if they break the taboo of silence they will be blamed for destroying their spiritual families and the "higher" good those families purportedly do in the world. Swami Rama has shattered the myth of western science about restrictions of human Physiology. ", Shortly after Pandit Rajmani introduced her to Swami Rama, Megan says, the guru called her into his private quarters and told her that they'd been together in a past life, that he'd waited to meet her again in this lifetime, and that now they were reunited. Elmer and Alyce Green observed that Swami Rama could produce different brain waves at will, including theta and delta (sleep) waves, while remaining aware of his environment. I have personally witnessed yogis casting off the body consciously on many occasions. He says it is a relationship that goes beyond religions, the purest relationship possible, "the relationship of water flowing from a hill and filling a hollow at the bottom-the hollow has nothing to give in return, but only to accept that grace in gratitude. Through her sympathy for what appeared to be his plight, and disarmed by his jokes, she says she allowed him to cajole her until she let her defenses down. The FBI has confirmed the existence of a file documenting the agency's investigation, but at the time of publication the file had not yet been released under the Freedom of Information Act. They also record numerous instances when he took many disciples illnesses upon himself and either absorbed them into his own physical systems or dissipated them. The lawsuit I heard rumors about in New York City never materialized. In 1997, after the Swami had died, one of the women pressing charges was awarded almost two million dollars in damages posthumously. . He is widely respected in the East, where he held, and later renounced, the office of Shankaracharya, Indian's highest spiritual position. One spring evening a couple of weeks later, she says, Swami Rama called her aside to ask why she'd been avoiding him, and she tried to tell him she'd discovered his lies. [CDATA[ [5] He called on 16th December. Jesus demonstrated his knowledge of these methods when he brought Lazarus back to life. In the year 1970 under the supervision of scientists from the clinic of Menninger in Topeka (Kansas) he demonstrated that he is able to control his autonomic nervous system. At bottom, however, she believed her feelings didn't matter. Rama, Swami. Hughes, who ran East West Books Chicago and then worked as publicity and sales director of Himalayan Publishers and Distributors, now has a masters degree in counseling and hosts a successful TV series in Memphis, Tennessee: Total Health and Relaxation: An Ounce of Prevention." Now Carolyn is more articulate: "When I finally start listening to myself, and I tell him I know he's sleeping with other women-and this is the man I came to, to help me learn how to listen to my inner voice, and then he tells me not to listen to it just as I'm starting to get some confidence in it-that's when I realized, this isn't yoga, this isn't truth, this is abuse.". 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